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Gustav Weigand

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German philologist (1860-1930)

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Gustav Weigand was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans and to the study of the relationships between the languages of the Balkan sprachbund.

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Ethnographic map of the Southwestern Balkan Peninsula by linguist Gustav Weigand (1890)Ethnographic map of the Southwestern Balkan Peninsula by linguist Gustav Weigand (1890)

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Gustav Weigand was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans and to the study of the relationships between the languages of the Balkan sprachbund. He has also provided substantial contribution to Aromanian studies, an example of this being the discovery and publication of the contents of the Codex Dimonie.

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Lived 1860 to 1930 · aged 70
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